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A History of the County of Shropshire
… (d. 1863). 32 It was sold in 1864 to the Oakengates and St. George's Gas and Water Co. Ltd., 33 which was in turn bought by the … Gas Works stood on the south-western edge of Trench Pool, and in 1912 the Hadley, Trench, and Wrockwardine Wood …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… to be processed to concentrate the content of potassium and to turn the raw product into POTASHES and PEARL ASH. It was less useful in its crude form, as one … traditionally as the most important of all British industries, and as such was the most highly scrutinised by …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Brictric's estate at that time. 8 In 1297 50 a. of arable and small acreages of pasture and meadow were recorded on the … 28 The growth of the cloth industry encouraged ancillary trades, and 3 carriers recorded in 1608 may have been … most of the working population were employed in the industries established in the Nailsworth valley or in the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… the centre of the parish, between heath in the north-west and closes and woods in the south-east. The three principal manors had … conformed to the East Anglian pattern of inconstant names and irregular and perhaps variable sizes. 97 Among the more …
A History of the County of Essex
… the economic life of the village, providing timber and some pasture, while restricting the amount of arable … was densely wooded. 1 Monkhams was originally all wood, and there also pannage was important. 2 Some clearances had … has grown up in what is essentially a dormitory town. The industries include the making of plate-glass, refrigerators, …
A History of the County of Essex
… Woodford Education and charities EDUCATION. In 1796 there was a Sunday school at … where most of the children of the poor were taught and clothed charitably. 1 By 1807, if not before, the only … schools of industry were founded, one attended by 20 boys and the other by 20 girls, and both supported by voluntary …
A History of the County of Essex
… at the northern end of Becontree hundred. Its western and northern boundaries ran through Epping Forest, part of … was amalgamated with that of Wanstead, to the south, and in 1937 the borough of Wanstead and Woodford was formed. In 1965 Wanstead and Woodford, …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… Beds, about 250 ft. above O.D. Further E. the land falls and the Chalk is soon overlain by Reading Beds and London Clays which give rise to a well-wooded area, at … from 200 ft. to 120 ft., drained by streams flowing S. and S.E. Bagshot Beds in the S.E. of the parish result in …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… is a rectory, valued in the king's books at 13. 1. 10., and in the patronage of the Crown: the tithes have been commuted for 482, and the glebe comprises 18 acres. The church is principally … union of Basingstoke, hundred of Mainsborough, Winchester and N. divisions of the county of Southampton, 8 miles (S. …
A History of the County of Sussex
… demesne farm in 1086. 70 The farm had 114 a. in 1339 71 and 118 a. in 1434. 72 On the Morley manor demesne farm there … remained the largest farms in the parish between the 16th and 18th centuries. About 1639 Woodmancote Place farm had 149 … and the earlier 19th there was often a carpenter; 54 other trades recorded then were those of shoemaker, 55 smith, 56 …